On May 9, 2011, tribal wisdom keepers gathered at Wingspread. As Oneida Cultural Heritage Officer Robert Brown offered the opening prayer in the Oneida language, thunder echoed ancestral grandfathers’ blessing upon the participants and their deliberations to do the right thing by Mother Earth. The GEM Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability Conference was thus started, with the purpose of charting a Red Path towards an Evergreen Society.
Wisdom keepers from across Indian Country gather at GEM Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, May 9-11, 2011.
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